[Publius]

Atlas Shrugged flashback thread.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for the ping, and thanks for your book.

[Billthedrill]

When we started that project I recall thinking that certain parts of AS were overblown and improbable. They weren't.

Anyone unfamiliar with the novel but reluctant to take on an 1100-word behemoth could find the salient ideas in these two selections:

Francisco d'Anconia's Money Speech, and

Hobo Jeff Allen's relation of The Story of The Twentieth Century Motor Company.

Oh, and don't kill yourself trying to digest all of Chapter 26 at once. Rand's editor, Bennett Cerf, thought it would have been a better novel without it. Rand thought there would have been no novel without it. They were both right.